My father told me when I was little that if I stayed in the bathtub too long the "drain spiders" would come up and get me. I was deathly afraid of spiders. I believed this until my early teens. Thanks dad.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- Farts really are Barking Spiders, right?Anon
- When I was a small boy, I used to believe there were spiders in the toilets.— nicolas, a French student in 8th grade
- I used to think spiders came from rosebuds. Don't ask. It was a traumatic experience.— Zog